My husband has my step children the same amount of time that his ex-wife does. No one is considered primary yet he has to pay child support to her. I guess he made more money than she did when they divorced, but my husbadn lost that job and has new employment making less money than she does. My husband has to also provide the hmedical uinsurance on the kids. They are too pay half of all medical bills but she doesn't pay her half, we get stuck paying it so our kids can continue to go to the same doctors offices. They are supposed to each pay half for school expenses but she doesn't pay her half. She is remarried with 2 more kids. And my husband remarried me and we have two more kids. Both households of 6, their income is higher and yet he has to pay her child support and we get sutck paying more than half the expenses and she still has the nerve to say her child supoprt isn't big enough and ask for more moeny. And then I wonder where it goes. The kids will constantly call and say dad I need shoes, etc. or my mom bought me these pants and you need to pay her for them. As far as I am concerned that is what he pays her child support for. We provide for them at our house and she should at their house. Sometimes the kids dont help because what we buy is not good enough for them becuase its not bradn name. Well we can't afford it. And while he has to pay for all this for them the kids he has half the time, he has nothing left over after child support insurance and house payment for our home to pay for anything for our kids. I do it all, plus pay to feed his kids when they are in our house which is not cheap becasue htey both have appetites to eat us out of house and home. I pay for all that our children that we had to gether get, the groceries, the utilities, the credit cards, etc..and get pretty ticked off about the child support situation because she gets it and still does not provide for her kids...where I get nothing and am provideing for a family of 6 9step kids inlcuded) on a part-time minimum wage job! Sometimes I wish I were the one getting the child support and not the ex-wife. I mean I feed them, I buy them clothes, birthday gifts, xmas gifts, school supplies on top of providing for our shared children diapers, childcre, etc..with no one paying me anything to take care of our kids and no assiatance form the goverment either. WTF does she spend it on. Not only did she get child support but she got medicaid and social securuty for my step daugheter because she had cancer whern she was three...she survived beat the cancer, the social security was supposed to stop when the medical treatment for cancer stopped more than 5 years ago..but she continued to faudulaently collect it. And still could nto provide for her kids without more of our money...And now the feds caught her and she has to pay back several years of soicl security and she had the nerve to try to say my huabdn had to pay half of it back since she collected it on thier daughter...we didnt see a dime of the money and it wasn't used for medialc bills either all that was covered by charities and fundraiser or my husbands insuracne..So she was getting almost 500$ (200$ child support and the rest from socialsecurity fraud.) a month to provide for two kids that she only had half the time while we did all the providing for...I could do a lot for the kids with an extra 200$ a month. For one had that money stayed in our house and not been payed out te her we would be getting by without burying ourselves in debt. And the money woul dhave been spent on the kids not God knows what.